Zam Naqvi: Film Director | Freelance Writing

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ZAM NAQVI

• ZAM NAQVI

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About ZAM NAQVI

• Zam Naqvi is a film director and writer who has a
  wealth of knowledge of the film industry.
• After training at HB studios NYC and gaining a
  Postgraduate from The Courtyard Theatre in
  London, Zam was commissioned to write the comic
  book trilogy Signs and Voices, which was then
  selected for the B3 Talent Campus 2014 for
  further development into a game.
• In 2015, Zam was the recipient of the Creative
  Skillset Diversity Fund for further training at
  The London Film School.Screenwriter, Film and
  Documentary making, Zam was also a participant in
  The Screenwriter Talent campus.

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Guillermos Monster in The Shape of Water.
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Guillermos Monster in The Shape of Water.

• Monsters are evangelical creatures for me.
  When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I
  could fit somewhere, even if it was an imaginary
  place where the grotesque and the abnormal were
  celebrated and accepted. Guillermo Del Toro.
• This is about the story of a voiceless orphan
  Elisa, who works as a cleaner in the top secret
  government laboratory wherein she falls in love
  with a sea monster when a suspicious delivery
  arrives and she had to clean the room in which
  the monster is housed.
• They come from completely different worlds and
  can only communicate through signing to each
  other in an environment that is hostile to them
  both.
• Guillermo through his monster facilitates the
  classic immigrant story, post arrival and
  pre-acceptance if indeed that is a fully
  attainable goal or privilege.

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• The hostility of the new world, different
  language, a new way of life, coupled with a
  suspicion of being newcomers speaking in foreign
  tongues perfectly reflects the current refugee
  crisis and the treatment of millions of displaced
  people who have left their homes, with many of
  then swept up onto our shores at times dead on
  arrival.
• Many of those who do survive are stigmatised by
  the press and communities and others who are
  living in a culture of fear against the new wave
  of immigrants.These outsiders are real and
  exist in abundance.
• The art direction also help transport us into
  this dark, beautiful fairy tale with performances
  from Richard Jenkins, Sally Hawkins, Octavia
  Spencer, Michael Shannon and Doug Jones as the
  sea monster.
• Guillermo is fully intent on achieving his goal
  this time with his sea monster who gets his
  girl, offering us a glimmer of hope for the
  future.
• Many more blogs are in pipeline..
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  Freelance Writing

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